This week saw another mega thread on the User mailing list, this time on hosting options. Looks like the winner is Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and there’s a lot of useful information in the thread, so be sure to check it out.

Maybe it has been a common practice and I’ve only noticed it because I watch new and updated plugins for these posts, but it seems like most recent plugin releases require the latest (or a very recent) version of Grails as the minimum version. When you run grails create-plugin the generated plugin descriptor defaults to def grailsVersion = "1.3.6 > *" (assuming you use Grails 1.3.6). A lot of developers will still be using older versions of Grails and won’t even be able to test your plugin. This may be intentional – if you don’t have users, you won’t get bug reports Be sure to drop the minimum version (and fill out the rest of the fields!) but make sure you test with earlier versions.

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